anonymous

3 years ago

Find three consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the largest and twice the smallest is 25.
If x represents the smallest integer, then which equation could be used to solve the problem?
Take me through the steps on solving this dont give me the answer trying to understand how to do this x+1,x something like x+1+25??

if the first odd number is x, then consecutive odd numbers can be found by adding two to the previous one.thus the three consecutive odd numbers will be x, x+2,x+4
the largest of the three will be x+4. twice of the smallest will be 2x. it is given that their sum is 25. so
x+4+2x=25
Does that help?